Category Archives: New Orleans

In what will likely be one of the most gluttonous trips of my life (but not the most because no one should underestimate my future ability to eat delicious junk), I traveled to New Orleans and ate for three days straight. Here I am in GIF form enjoying a beignet from Café Du Monde:

And if you want to get up close and personal with that fine piece of legendary sugar and dough:

Was it delicious? Yes. Was it the best thing I had in New Orleans? No. Read on to find out what made it to the top of my list of N’awlins eats and lots more Cajun delicacies.

Commander’s Palace is as old school as it gets, setting up shop in 1880. And Wikipedia says, “It was ranked the most famous restaurant in New Orleans,” so it was obviously our first stop.

I obviously had to eat a po’ boy, but I opted for a non-traditional variety at Killer Poboys, a po’ boy pop-up in the back of a bar. And they are SERIOUS about the fact that it’s a bar – the badass lady chef verbally chastised two young-looking boys for trying to buy a sandwich. The boys were terrified but the rest of us were quite amused.

So what was the best thing I ate in New Orleans? An unassuming local donut hole called a buttermilk drop at Wink’s Bakery.

Buttermilk drops are part cake, part donut. When I asked what made them so good, the person behind the counter said, “We use the real stuff to fry them.” I don’t think I want to know what that means, but this was definitely the best bite I had in all of New Orleans. Better than a beignet. Trust me.

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